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Spelling Bee Practice Tips

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Spelling bee practice gives students confidence for the big competition. It also helps kids to build spelling skills from which they can benefit all year long!  

What are some of the best practice ideas for individual students? Here are the ones we like best, arranged in two categories.

Individual Spelling Bee Practice Ideas

Printable version of Spelling Bee Practice Ideas

Part 1: Strategies to use all year long

1) Read a lot of good books and expand your vocabulary. You’ll learn new words and how to use them. Write down the most interesting words, and the ones with the trickiest spellings in a spelling notebook. Review it from time to time.

2) Learn your weekly spelling words. Keep a list of the words you miss on quizzes and tests in your spelling notebook.26Save

3) Learn your best spelling bee style.  How do you prepare to spell a word aloud? Are you most successful if you

• trace it with your finger
• say it to yourself
• or picture it in your mind?

Figure this out in advance. Then once a week, have a friend or family member ask you to spell a few words aloud, spelling bee style. Get comfortable with spelling tricky words in front of other people.

4) Practice writing words on your own so that you don’t always have to involve another person. Or type them into a text document on the computer.

5) Learn basic spelling strategies and rules.  Make a list of commonly-used words that are exceptions to these rules.

6) Read How to Spell Like a Champ by Trinkle, Andrews and Kimble, three people closely associated with the Scripps National Spelling Bee. (If you can’t find it at your library, check at Amazon.) The book contains lists of tricky words, spelling bee practice strategies, fun quizzes and more.

7) If you’re really serious about advancing to regional, state or national competitions, you need to get a good dictionary and study it. 

Part 2: Practice ideas to use just weeks or days before the Bee

 Go to this page to read helpful, short-term practice tips.

Spelling Bee Word Lists

 We have lots of spelling bee words you can study! Each spelling bee list contains 100 – 120 words, arranged generally from easiest to most difficult. 

3rd grade          4th grade         5th grade
6th grade          7th grade         8th-grade

You may also be interested in this word list featuring silent first letters, and another list of words where doubling or not doubling consonants is the key to correct spelling.

The Spelling Bee Toolboxes

Our Spelling Bee Toolbox eBooks are comprehensive resources for anyone who wants a simple way to put together a classroom, all-school or multi-school spelling bee.

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Spelling Bee Books List for Different Grades to ease your pain

A list of books suitable for spelling bee training divided by grade.Contentshide1 Spelling Bee Books2 First Grade Spelling Bee3 Second Grade Spelling Bee4 Third Grade Spelling Bee5 Fourth Grade Spelling Bee6 Fifth Grade Spelling Bee7 Sixth Grade Spelling Bee8 Seventh Grade Spelling Bee9 Eighth Grade Spelling Bee

Spelling Bee Books

Often we find ourselves watching various competitions on television, with the viewer aspiring to be a part of the center stage.
One of the main educational competition that inspires and motivates kids is Spelling Bee contest in which children up to 16 years of age participate and showcase their knowledge of spellings and pronunciation.
The most conventional method of spelling bee preparation is reading books, not only of your level but also advanced ones.
Talking about Spelling Bee Books, we cannot avoid to suggest you our spelling bee preparation ebook: Mastering Spelling Bee.
It is a book we wrote with Spelling Bee preparation in mind, we decided to give it for free to every student willing to succeed.

It contains valuable Spelling information, techniques, tips and tricks related Spelling Bee, also it teaches how to use SBN features to get prepared for a spelling bee in the fastest possible way. Please check the page dedicated to our Spelling Bee book and feel free to download a complimentary copy, with our best wishes.

Following are the grades for spelling bee books as suggested by the Scripps Spelling Bee website:

First Grade Spelling Bee

1. Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel
2. The Boy Who Loved Words by Roni Schotter
3. Widget by Lyn Rossiter McFarland
4. Ivy & Bean by Annie Barrows
5. The Empty Pot by Demi
6. Nate the Great by Marjorie Weinman Sharma

Second Grade Spelling Bee

1. Bartholomew and the Oobleck by Dr. Seuss
2. Ladybug Girl by Jackie Davis
3. Winter of the Ice Wizard by Mary Pope Osborne
4. The Titanic: Lost and Found (Step into Reading) by Judy Donnelly
5. Emperor’s Penguins by Roberta Edwards

Third Grade Spelling Bee

1. The Facts and Fictions of Minna Pratt
2. Hedgie’s Surprise by Jan Brett
3. The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
4. Stellaluna by Jael Cannon
5. Lulu and the Brontosaurus by Judith Viorst
6. Fairy Tale Feasts: A Literary Cookbook for Young Readers and Eaters by Jane Yolen and
7. Heidi E. Stemple
8. Who Was Isaac Newton? by Janet B. Pascal

Fourth Grade Spelling Bee

1. The Cricket in Time’s Square by George Selden
2. The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
3. The Misadventures of Maude March by Audrey Couloumbis
4. Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary
5. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
6. Jumanji by Chris van Allsburg
7. Sadako and Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr
8. The Boy Who Painted Dragons by Demi

Fifth Grade Spelling Bee

1. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
2. Magyk: Septimus Heap Book One by Angie Sage
3. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K.Rowling
4. Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper
5. Matilda by Roald Dahl
6. Porch Lies: Tales of Slicksters, Tricksters, and Other Wily Characters by Patricia C. McKissack
7. The Candymakers by Wendy Mass
8. Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue by Julius Lester
9. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Sixth Grade Spelling Bee

1. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K.Rowling
2. The Light Princess by George McDonald
3. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
4. The Shakespeare Stealer by Gary Blackwood
5. The Fantastic Five by Enid Blyton
6. Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
7. Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett
8. Freak and the Mighty by Rodman Philbrik

Seventh Grade Spelling Bee

1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
3. Wildwood by Colin Meloy
4. Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths by Bernard Evslin
5. Cinder by Marissa Meyer
6. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
7. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
8. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Eighth Grade Spelling Bee

1. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkein
2. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S.Lewis
3. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
4. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
5. Beauty and the Beast by Max Elinberg
6. The Terrifying Tales by Edgar Allan Poe